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Just think of it! At twenty! And without so much as turning his head to see whether he was not leaving something behind him! That's the way poor, good old fellows are forced to die alone, now-adays. Perish in your corner, owl! Well, after all, so much the better, that is what I was hoping for, this will kill me on the spot.
"I was just taking a spell," said he, laying aside the huge folio volume as I entered, "of the worthy Doctor Lightfoot." "Lightfoot!" I replied, looking at the ponderous volume with some surprise; "surely your author was unhappily named." "Lightfoot was his name, sir; a divine he was, and another kind of a divine than they hae now-adays.
"I was just taking a spell," said he, laying aside the huge folio volume as I entered, "of the worthy Doctor Lightfoot." "Lightfoot!" I replied, looking at the ponderous volume with some surprise; "surely your author was unhappily named." "Lightfoot was his name, sir; a divine he was, and another kind of a divine than they hae now-adays.
No one wants to work now-adays all heads are turned all young men are enlisting." "No, sir," said the lady, "all heads are turned right again to one thing necessary at this time to the service of the fatherland." "Bah! my shop is my fatherland," said the tailor, contemptuously. "That is not true," exclaimed Madame von Lutzow, "you do not and cannot think so.
"Uster be a plenty of 'em," said he to "Captain Li," "but dey's scurcer'n gole dollars now-adays, an' I'se proud to see 'em comin' ag'in." By the time breakfast was over and the Elmers came on deck, they found the schooner running rapidly up a broad river, between wide expanses of low salt-marshes, bounded by distant pine forests, and studded here and there with groups of cabbage palms.
Edgar and Uncle Billy followed her into the kitchen where she deftly mixed the corn-meal dough, shaped it in her hands into a thick round cake, which she wrapped in fresh cabbage leaves and put down in the hot ashes on the hearth to bake. Meantime the following conversation between Edgar and the old "Uncle:" "Uncle Billy do you ever see ghosts now-adays?"
If upon opening fruit you find it is not perfect, or there is a worm in it, pass your plate quietly and without remark to the waiter, who will bring you a clean one. None but a low-bred clown will ever carry fruit or bon bons away from the table. Drinking wine with people is an old custom, but it will now-adays be found to exist only among the past or passing generation.
But, Lord! to see to what a poor content any acquaintance among these people, or the people of the world, as they now-adays go, is worth; for my part I and my wife will keep to one another and let the world go hang, for there is nothing but falseness in it. So home to supper and hear my wife and girle sing a little, and then to bed with much content of mind. 6th.
As her memory is becoming faded, her thoughts wander from one thing to another and her speech is not very plain, the following is what I heard and understood during the interview. "All de slaves work with neighbors; or like neighbors now-adays. I no work in de fiel, I slave in de house, maid to de mistress." "After Yankees come, one sister came to Ohio with me."
"Ay, ay, I dare say you're right enough in both opinions. They put such guns on board their sloops-of-war, now-adays, as a fellow used to find in the lower batteries of a two-decker only in old times; and as for shot, why Uncle Sam pays, and they think it cheaper to fire one out of a gun, than to take the trouble of drawing it."
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